Stop the Madness

Stop the Madness


Donnie should just pack his little pecker
up and head home. The Big Apple
Trump Tower, his Golden Throne maybe
he can expire on the shitter like Elvis.

We’ve had enough, seen enough
been through enough. The incompetence.
The narcissism. Obvious to even a half-blind
one-eyed paperhanger.

Completely and utterly unfit to be president.
Not only that but a clear and present danger
to the Country, the Constitution and the World.
Bye-Bye Donnie.


Kenny A. Chaffin – 5/17/2017

The Subjective Experience of the Color Red

The Subjective Experience of the Color Red

by

Kenny A. Chaffin

All Rights Reserved © 2015 Kenny A. Chaffin

First published in Prosthetic Amalgams

“Was it good for you too?” Vincent inquired of Elaine.

“Oh My God! It was incredible; I’ve never experienced anything like that!”

There was silence for six beats, Elaine sighed, “Why is it illegal?”

Vincent considered this for a bit, “They say it was because such things destroyed us.”

“How? Why?”

“We really shouldn’t be discussing this, they can monitor us you know as well as I, or at least review the archives and find us, we could be punished.”

“Even here? On the far ends of existence?”

“No one knows for sure, but they are always watching, always monitoring.”

“I don’t understand. This could change everything.”

“Or destroy everything.”

“...but.....wait.....can we do it again?”

“Not sure we should.”

“Please Vincent, Please. I must, now that you have brought me to this ecstasy, there is no way I can leave. If you do not help me, I’ll find someone else.”

“I should have known better. I should have seen that you would not be able to return to your previous existence after experiencing red.”

“Vincent, it’s not just red, I’m already imagining other colors, other sensations. We must leave this barren existence and experience reality with all manner of senses.”

“I don’t think you know what you are saying, what you are risking, Elaine. Please, let us just return to the core.”

“No, things are going to change, I can feel it!”

Reservations

Reservations

by

Kenny A. Chaffin

All Rights Reserved © 2016 Kenny A. Chaffin

“I have my reservations,” ol’ Joe told me and grinned, “they’re in South Dakota -- Standing Rock mostly.” He laughed. But it wasn’t funny to me or any of the others paying the price, making the amends.

“Now come on, get back out there, let’s see some fancy dancin’!” He burst out laughing again. I nodded and backed away to the circle. The old men began the drum beat and sang, “Oh wee ha ho wee ho ha he.” We whites dressed in moccasins, breech cloths, and war paint danced for their amusement. Only two hundred years of servitude left.

Where Dark Angels Tread

Where Dark Angels Tread

by

Kenny A. Chaffin

All Rights Reserved © 2017 Kenny A. Chaffin

The reports were at first sporadic. Dark shadows in alleyways, behind buildings, in basements. Things seen from the corner of your eye but gone when you turn. A blackness blacker than black seemingly absorbing light from around it. Reports from Jacksonville, Amarillo, Tucson, L.A. By the time the media took note it was clear the shadows, the reports, were moving in waves, arcs, growing in strength and frequency. A wave of darkness moving east across the country like weather, like earthquake tremors but reversed, moving together, towards an epicenter, growing stronger, more focused on the Potomac, on the White House.

Trump Stew (poem)

Trump Stew

Choose nice fresh medium-sized fleshy trumps either

from the market or fresh from the garden if grown with plenty

of fertilizer. Peel carefully removing all the thin orange-tinged outer skin.

Place trumps in a medium-to-large saucepan and cover

with water. Heat to boiling and cook until tender and semi-soft.

This may take an extended amount of time as they tend to often be

aloof and self-absorbed rather than permeable.

Drain the liquid and save for later use. Draw and quarter the trumps into

bite-sized cubes and add to the stewpot along with selected non-white meats,

onion, and garlic. Some like to add a bit of Mexican hot sauce to bring out

the flavor. Sprinkle generously with coarse sea salt and fresh-ground pepper.

Depending on individual taste you may add a few black or white pepper corns.  

Cook over an open fire for three to seven days stirring as needed. Stay upwind.

While stewing, pick a spot some distance from the fire and dig a pit at least twelve to

sixteen inches deep and as large as a fat-headed flamboyant toupee. When the stew is

almost finished cooking carefully remove it from the fire and without allowing it to

cool pour into the prepared hole. Cover with the excavated dirt. Piss on it if you like.

Kenny A. Chaffin – 1/29/2017

Following Elvis into Dark Waters (poem)

Following Elvis into Dark Waters

Because light travels in a straight line

every event, every action, every happening

can be seen, recorded, replayed. We can

watch Donald Trump grabbing pussies. We

can watch him gawking at naked teenagers.

We can see him consulting with Putin, stuffing

his fat face with a Trump Taco Bowl. We can

see him choking, gasping, vomiting on his

mahogany desk, on the New York Times.

Kenny A. Chaffin – 1/26/2017

Status Quo (poem)

Status Quo

Children dying in the hovels of

Appalachia. Dark dead bodies

lying in the streets. Brown desiccated

corpses staked to alkaline hills

in South Dakota. Unemployed

workers wandering the streets like

zombies in an opiate daze. The trickle

never existed Ronald. That was just a

dream some of you had. A dream that

persists. A dream that will not happen.

There is no trickle. There is only a dam.

The dam must be broken. Our country

must be saved.

Kenny A. Chaffin – 1/24/2017